The REAL definition of "REAL" (was: Trivia Question

From: steve <gkicomputers_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Mon Feb 24 13:06:01 2003

No there is no REAL computer. An "analog" computer is
really digital, the resolution is a function of the
charge on an electron and the supply voltage used in a
particular application.

steve


--- "Fred Cisin (XenoSoft)" <cisin_at_xenosoft.com>
wrote:
> On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Feldman, Robert wrote:
> > A real computer doesn't know what the square root
> of negative one is? :-P
>
> Thank you.
> Last week, I was explaining to one of my classes the
> differences between
> Floating Point and Real.
>
> A REAL computer (if there were such - analog??)
> would have infinite
> numbers between 1 and 2. A Floating Point system
> only has about 8
> million, and doesn't have any odd numbers above
> about 16 million.
> Double precision has substantially more, but still
> quite clearly
> finite.
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